Rikki Neave’s stepfather left boy’s mother because of her violence

The best friend of murdered schoolboy Rikki Neave told police the six-year-old had wanted to run away days before his disappearance. Rikki’s body was found in woods in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, in November 1994, after he was strangled, stripped naked and left in a ‘star pose’. James Watson, who would have been 13 at the time, is now 40 and denies Rikki’s murder. Watson was arrested after sophisticated technology found a ‘definitive match’ between his DNA profile and samples taken from…